Duskwatch

About this app

What Duskwatch does

When someone you love has dementia, the hardest part is rarely the memory loss. It is the 5 p.m. agitation you cannot explain, the aggression that appears out of nowhere, the wandering at 2 a.m. Every neurologist and every caregiving guide gives the same advice: keep a log of episodes and their triggers so you can find the pattern. But the tooling for that advice is a paper notebook or a spreadsheet, and nobody writes neat spreadsheet rows in the middle of a meltdown. Duskwatch is a behavior journal built for that exact moment. One hand, thirty seconds: what happened right before, what the behavior was, what you tried, and whether it helped. That trigger-behavior-response structure is the same one clinicians use, captured as taps instead of paragraphs, so logging actually happens even on the worst days. Once episodes accumulate, Duskwatch turns them into pictures. A time-of-day heatmap shows you at a glance that the agitation clusters between 4:30 and 7:00 in the evening. A trigger breakdown shows how often noise, hunger, visitors, or transitions preceded an episode. And your own calming responses are ranked by how often you recorded that they helped, so at the next episode you can check what worked last time instead of guessing from memory. Duskwatch never suggests treatments or gives medical advice; it simply organizes what you observed, in your own words. When a medication starts, stops, or changes dose, add it to the timeline and see episode frequency before and after the change, so the conversation with the doctor starts from a real baseline instead of a guess. Then, before the next appointment, generate a clean visit report: episode counts, timing patterns, triggers, and your notes, formatted as a PDF you can hand across the desk. This data is deeply private, which is why Duskwatch is completely offline. No account, no cloud, no server. Your family's hardest moments stay on your device, and sharing happens only when you choose to export a file. Built for the daughters, sons, and spouses doing the hardest unpaid job in America. • 30-second one-hand episode capture: trigger, behavior, response, outcome • Time-of-day and day-of-week heatmap of episodes • Trigger breakdown across noise, hunger, visitors, transitions, and more • Your own calming responses ranked by recorded outcomes • Medication-change timeline overlaid on episode frequency • PDF visit report for neurologist and geriatrician appointments • Fully offline, no account, no subscription